On February 10th, 2014 the Department of Labor and Industries' received a petition for rulemaking (5 MB PDF) signed by the employer and employee co-chairs of the Hazardous Drug Advisory Committee. After reviewing the petition, the Department agreed to initiate rulemaking (59 KB PDF) to address some of the specific items identified in the petition. The department will proceed with rulemaking and is scheduling a number of stakeholder meetings over the summer to begin discussing updating the rule.